More interactions create more work for contact tracing teams that have to reach more people and convince them to isolate. A spokesperson for Florida’s Department of Health said the state has more than 2,300 people working on contact tracing. That is less than 10% of the 33,000 tracers needed, according to the Contact Tracing Workforce Estimator, a simulator developed by the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity at the George Washington University. The tool estimates that the nation needs more than 218,000 contact tracers overall,
though the number continues to grow alongside the uptick in U.S. cases since states reopened. There is no reliable estimate for how many contact tracers are working across the entire U.S. Read More.
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MIAMI – Florida needs at least 3,232 contact tracers, the detectives who investigate COVID-19 infections during the coronavirus pandemic. Miami-Dade County needs at least 415. Broward needs at least 293. This is according to the Contact Tracing Workforce Estimator, a database that public health experts are updating to help local authorities to estimate the need each area has around the country. Read More.
CDC Contact Tracing Resources to stop the spread of COVID-19 has put together a resource page for guidance for COVID-19 that may be adapted by state and local health departments to respond to rapidly changing local circumstances. Read More.
Erik Ortiz of NBC News Online - Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said during a press briefing Friday that the hurdles to effective contact tracing remain, in part because of the spread of the virus among asymptomatic individuals, as well as the difficulty of getting people who may have been infected to answer their phones when a contact tracer calls. In North Carolina, where Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, announced he is issuing a mask mandate beginning Friday and delaying phase three of the state's reopening plan by at least three weeks, there are more than 1,500 full- and part-time contact tracers. But a George Washington University analysis estimates that the state would need nearly 7,800 contact tracers to keep up with the rise in cases. Read More.
Texas needs to at least triple its number of contact tracers, according to one research model6/23/2020 William Joy of WFAA - FORT WORTH, Texas — Two months into reopening, Texas needs help. In fact, it needs thousands of helpers. At least that’s what Edward Salsberg thinks. Salsberg is a senior researcher at The Mullan Institute at George Washington University and helped build a model to figure out how many contact tracers states need to track COVID-19. “People want to get back to being social,” he said. “That’s when you need the contact tracers the most.” Read More.
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